Prior to Contracting/Pre-Contracting
1. Endorsement of professional guidelines: Quintura Meta Cloud
(on-going discussion: pending)
2. All party use of a web-based or open source Requirements Management tool,
under evaluation OSRMT 1.5, ReqMan, Rally, Jama Contour, e-LM.com
3. All party installation and use of Unified Communications (like Skype.com, Oovoo.com), collaborative applications (Skype in conjunction with InstaColl, Live-Documents), or online conferencing (Yugma)
4. All party establishment and use of a web-based Project Wiki/Blog for project communication and information (to post messages and comments, to share documents and encourage contributions, to maintain to-do lists, to set project milestones), document organization and archive (to use tags, to increase search capability), the raise of discussion points and their feedback, and participative involvement of project members, including the use of according
Xwiki & XBlog http://www.netcipia.com/
5. Project manager and Trainer use of a web-based or open source CRM tool.
Web 2.0 Customer Relationship Management http://crm.zoho.com/
6. Project manager and Trainer use of a web-based or open source Personnel Management tool.
Web 2.0 People Management & Recruitment Solution http://people.zoho.com/
7. Automatic e-mail project reminders via Google Calendar.
8. Use of a comprehensive check list for consulting. pending
9. Use of a web-based project protocol template.
10. Implement best-practice project management principles.
11. Implement best-practice risk management principles.
12. Directive 2000/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating late payment in commercial transactions
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/regulation/late_payments/index.htm
During Contracting
1. Use of web-based collaborative Web 2.0 or Open Source consulting applications for training contracting (evaluation pending:)
2. Intermediate training status delivery with review or revision, and feedback of problem management types. Training Quality Index. All party use of a web-based or open source Problem Management Log tool (evaluation pending) or Help Desk 2.0 http://www.zendesk.com/
Post-Contracting
1. Review/Revision: feedback of problem management types
2. Final Verifying: feedback of problem management types
3. Quality survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/
4. Trainer client payment behavior blog
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